5. blindness

I didn’t have to wait long, soon I heard the soft whisper of Rosalie’s footsteps as she walked over to the door and opened it.

As soon as the door was open, Rosalie walked back over to her and Emmett’s bed, where she had been reading ‘Bella’ magazine. It was ironic how Rose seemed to instantly hate Bella, but loved reading Bella magazine. I stifled a laugh.

“Rose, we need to talk.” I said, sitting on the edge if the bed.

“Do we?” asked Rosalie as she threw the magazine across the room. It landed elegantly on top of a pile of C.D’s

“Its about Bella.” I knew I didn’t have to say the meaning of this discussion, Rose knew all to well why I was here.

“Alice, if you and everyone else wants to fuss over Edwards new obsession, feel free. But do NOT drag me into this. She is nothing to me apart from a dangerous asset to our originally dangerous lives and I will not be responsible for our family’s guilt when she ends up dead due to the fact that one of us couldn’t control themselves.”

Rosalie’s little rant shocked me.

I hadn’t expected her to be that cold towards Bella or our family.

“Rosalie, can I ask you a question?” I already knew what she would say

“fine.”

“Are you blind ?” Rosalie’s head shot up and I could see her eyes were furious.

“Do I look blind to you Alice !? Do I look incapable of sight !?”

“Rose, if you cant see how different Edward has been since he met Bella then the answer to your question is yes ! You are blind if you cannot see that. Edward will be happy with Bella, accept it !” I stood up and walked out of the room, purposely slamming the door behind me.

Esme would lecture me about that later but at the moment I didn’t care.

I was furious at Rosalie, I was -

Suddenly my thoughts stopped, my vision clouded.

“your asking me about the weather ?” she asked, a little surprised.

“yes, I guess I am.” said Edward, smiling his crooked smile that he would reserve only for her.

“Well, I don’t like the rain. Any cold, wet thing, I don’t really…” her sentence trailed off and he laughed a bit.

“if you don’t like the cold, why did you move to the wettest place in the continental U.S?”

Then suddenly everything was back to normal.

I knew Edward had seen what I had seen, but thank goodness it wasn’t a vision with critical information to his future, for that I was thankful.

I decided that I would spend the rest of the night in mine and Jaspers room. There was only a few hours until sin rise and I wanted to be with him.

I opened the door and found him sitting on our bed, looking at me. I automatically walked into his open arms, burying my head in his marble chest. A wave of calm washed over me and I kissed his jaw thankfully.

“Why does she hate her so much?” I whispered, knowing he could hear me.

I felt him rest cheek on my head before he answered.

“she just doesn’t like change. She thinks her life is too complicated for a human to understand. She doesn’t want Bella to have to live our lifestyle and to tell the truth, she’s kind of jealous. Bella is human, she could have everything Rosalie ever wanted when she was human, but Bella will only want Edward. Rosalie cant understand that, and so she blames her.”

I thought that over for a minute, and I could sort of empathise with Rosalie, but that didn’t change the anger I had felt towards her a few minutes previously.